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Found at the Dump

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Ishmael

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Saw this last week and couldn't just leave it there. Too cool.
It's a West Coast Choppers 1936 Ford coupe, somewhat (!) customized.
No battery, no remote, but it's way cool, in my opinion anyway. I just look at it.

So what have you found at the dump?
 

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We are in the same boat, absolutely no picking anything at the transfer station. Years ago the guy next to me was unloading 2x6 off cuts, perfect for blocking I needed at the time.I got a strip torn off me by the attendant. The guy slid a few my way after the attendant left to spite him. I have actually had amazing luck getting dumpster surplus by asking permission.
 
skippyelwell said:
My local dump is called a transfer station and they guard their junk like it was gold. If you get caught taking anything you get banned.
Nice find.
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Ha ha! I spotted a metal desk drawer one time, perfect for under bench storage and asked a guy working there and he said just make sure they don’t see it at the scale on the way out. I guess that as long as the scales show you lighter on the way out you’re good to go! :p

Nice score on the model.

D :cool:
 
Tecnico said:
Ha ha! I spotted a metal desk drawer one time, perfect for under bench storage and asked a guy working there and he said just make sure they don’t see it at the scale on the way out. I guess that as long as the scales show you lighter on the way out you’re good to go! :p

Nice score on the model.

D :cool:
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I once spotted a brand new tractor driven wood chipper..... When I rolled across the scales on the way out the girl says "whatcha got in the back of the truck Don?" To which I quickly asked "why? What do you owe me?". She muttered something that I am not allowed to repeat here, but let's just say it had to do with sex and travel...... :cool:
 
skippyelwell said:
My local dump is called a transfer station and they guard their junk like it was gold. If you get caught taking anything you get banned.
Nice find.
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Exactly the same here. Even call it a transfer station. So stupid. Why recycle something when you can fill a landfill with it.......o_O

Transfer station wouldn't take a popup trailer we junked. Neither would the scrap yard. I had to take it to the landfill. But not without taking a 4hr safety course first.

Next time I'll rent a dumpster and smash the trailer up with my backhoe.
 
Yeah, I have scrounged some pretty great stuff at the Dump.

Like, about an ounce and a half of gold, chucked away because the owner could not, apparently, be bothered to untangle the tied up mess that the neck chains were in. Took me about three minutes...
Antique oil lamps, badly converted into electric lights... Aladdin Lamp glass that I got several hundred dollars for, at an antique sale.

These days, dumps, like scrap metal yards, are largely being run by people that do not really care about reducing or re-using anything, so much as they care about the idea that any piece that is taken from the property, represents a potential legal risk of being sued for whatever reason.

Reminds me of the quote from, IIRC, one of the Men In Black movies, in which it was said that a person might be smart, but people are stupid and unpredictable!
 
I grew up in the country. The local dump was half way up the valley wall. As kids we found full sheets of plywood and used car tires.

Did I mention that same valley wall was our main toboggan route? Only one kid was seriously injured on that toboggan jump that winter.
 
Such a stupid rule you can't pick at a transfer station. I thought the whole goal of this save the environment crap was to, uh, actually make a difference and divert stuff away from landfills. I don't buy, or give a shit about the "liability" excuse either. Such a cop out. Bubble wrap everybody....the world is dangerous. Stay inside and watch screens. It's all just about money, if they could find a way to charge you for taking stuff, they'd let you. If the hoarders that worked there would allow it though.....

I had an uncle that worked at his local transfer station, and his house and yard looked worse than the dump itself. The called it the Cavan Kmart (town name), and between him and all the other retired guys that worked there, I'm not sure anything ever actually left on the trucks.....

There's a bunch of those guys on kijiji and market place around here, that just pick and resell all the junk the pull out of the bins.
 
Dan Dubeau said:
Such a stupid rule you can't pick at a transfer station. I thought the whole goal of this save the environment crap was to, uh, actually make a difference and divert stuff away from landfills. I don't buy, or give a shit about the "liability" excuse either. Such a cop out. Bubble wrap everybody....the world is dangerous. Stay inside and watch screens. It's all just about money, if they could find a way to charge you for taking stuff, they'd let you. If the hoarders that worked there would allow it though.....

I had an uncle that worked at his local transfer station, and his house and yard looked worse than the dump itself. The called it the Cavan Kmart (town name), and between him and all the other retired guys that worked there, I'm not sure anything ever actually left on the trucks.....

There's a bunch of those guys on kijiji and market place around here, that just pick and resell all the junk the pull out of the bins.
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sadly, this is exactly down to taxpayers clamouring about the liability since govts which run transfer stations are self insuring entities. you may not buy it, but it is a fact, the same as the fact the earth is a sphere.
 
An old friend was complaining about his ex-wife's new boy friend and the potential risk to their son.
I knew the boy friend and asked what the problem was.

He exclaimed "He's a junkie!"

I smiled and replied "Yes, he has a contract to scavenge the dump two days per week and sells the stuff at his junk shop".
 
Susquatch said:
Transfer station wouldn't take a popup trailer we junked. Neither would the scrap yard. I had to take it to the landfill. But not without taking a 4hr safety course first.
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unfortunately for those of us with old, tired, worn out RV's n trailers...this is a logistic nightmare, and usually expensive

I blame the RV industry as a whole. The construction process doesn't lend itself to disassembly without major work.
The components used, don't warrant enough value even in gross amounts of weight, to make recycling them financially viable. The dump/landfills don't want them because of the space they take up, not to mention the refrigeration components, tires and sewage tanks
Metal recyclers don't want them because of the lack of decent material.

It's become such a problem here in BC (most likely everywhere really) that those folks who find themselves in the predicament...usually go about disposing of the unit by leaving it in the bush.
Where we are very, very lucky here in the Okanagan Valley...is one fella about 8 years ago...started a non-profit called the Okanagan Forest Task Force. He has game hunting cameras everywhere now...you can't drive up a FSR without him knowing...
He's caught and publicly shamed at least 6 dumpers in the last 2 years alone.
It's all volunteer work. With a lot of business level donations for equipment and services...
I just looked...they've removed over 1.1 million lbs of material, including garbage and metal from the back country here in the Valley.
Makes a fella vibrate with anger really...

ok...sorry for hijacking...back to our regular scheduled programming....
 
KeeponDragon said:
The components used, don't warrant enough value even in gross amounts of weight, to make recycling them financially viable.
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Have a buddy w/ a tag holiday trailer, newer, prolly 21' or so. Had it stored in his backyard for the winter, sizeable cottonwood branch fell on it during a wind storm two years ago, damaged the roof.

Insurance company wrote it off, paid him out. OK, whose coming to get the damaged trailer? Nobody, we can't dispose of them. Want it? You bet! He spent a few hunnert bucks on materials, lumber, sheet metal, screws, paint, caulking, couple days labour, fixed it up almost as good as new.

Bastard...
 
Dan Dubeau said:
Ah yes. the same people clamouring about us all needing to be green, and enviro friendly are the ones preventing us from truly doing so in actual meaningfull ways.....Got it. The earth is not a sphere BTW.....It's more like a football.....:D
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no, that type dont clamour at city council meetings, you mean the people who dont want property taxes to go up, and dont want any development in their hood, or any group homes for the disabled.
 
Susquatch said:
Nimby
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Not to put too fine a point upon it, but in a LOT of cases, the concerns of the people that are labeled with that tag, are simply well aware that, for instance, placing a half-way house for sexual predators, or Housing for the Homeless, in their neighborhoods, will have a distinctly Negative effect on their families and friends. Or, as happened in my youth, the prospect of a coal fired generation plant, using coal that was about as low grade as politics...

Not every idea that is proposed, is a good one. But I would (as a citizen of British Columbia) be supportive of opening a series of Methadone clinics and homeless shelters, in, say the Mont Royal neighborhood, in Montreal. Heck, I'd pay bus fares to dump them off there! LOL! I can't be the ONLY person that recalls what happened when a busload of illegal migrants got landed on the ground at Martha's Vineyard, am I?
 
trevj said:
Not to put too fine a point upon it, but in a LOT of cases, the concerns of the people that are labeled with that tag, are simply well aware that, for instance, placing a half-way house for sexual predators, or Housing for the Homeless, in their neighborhoods, will have a distinctly Negative effect on their families and friends. Or, as happened in my youth, the prospect of a coal fired generation plant, using coal that was about as low grade as politics...

Not every idea that is proposed, is a good one. But I would (as a citizen of British Columbia) be supportive of opening a series of Methadone clinics and homeless shelters, in, say the Mont Royal neighborhood, in Montreal. Heck, I'd pay bus fares to dump them off there! LOL! I can't be the ONLY person that recalls what happened when a busload of illegal migrants got landed on the ground at Martha's Vineyard, am I?
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and herein lies the problem....

I mentioned homes for people living with disability and one comment against it is that it is homeless people or housing for sexual predators. Time and again I've heard homeowners say that disabled people are a risk to children, and women... this is the cancer at the heart of NIMBYism
 
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